We have no king but christ: christian political thought in greater syria on the eve of the arab conquest (c.400-585)
Wood, Philip
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An examination of how, at the close of the Roman Empire, Christianity influenced the political and social philosophy of the peoples of the Near East, laying the groundwork for the blending of religious and ethnic identity that we seein the Middle East today. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Classification in a Christian Empire; 2: Controlling the Barbarians: The First Syrian Hagiographic Collection; 3: Theories of Nations and the World of Late Antiquity; 4: Edessa and Beyond: The Receptionof the Doctrina Addai in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries; 5: The Julian Romance; 6: Creating Boundaries in the Miaphysite Movement; 7: A Miaphysite Commonwealth; Conclusions
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958849-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 02/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés